The Sins of Hollywood ()

iff* The " Gold Digger" and the Wife HE is famous" now, this comedian—famous and rich. Children of all ages laugh in joyful glee at his screen antics. His salary extends into the thousands per year. For he is one or the great- est in his line. But it was not always thus. Time was when he was a plugger—a worker in another line of endeavor a newspaper man. Happily married "was this comedian whom we shall call Parry. He stayed at home those days and enjoyed the society of his loving wife and happy little child—his daughter. Through the years of struggling for a livelihood, fighting off the spectre of debt which followed in the wake of the birth of their baby, the wife was ever at his side cheering him, praising him, helping him to make a success in life. That was her job she was a helpmate. Then—he became a motion picture actor. At first he was only ordinary and commonplace. But his trained newspaper sense showed him that many comedians who were funny were overlooking some important features—ideas which make for fun on the screen. "Gags," the comedians call them. So Parry began to try out new stunts—"gags." From the first he was successful in his new idea.